Ashvilli crime family

The Ashvilli crime family was a Georgian Mafia crime syndicate with connections in both the former USSR and the United States. Led by Georgian oligarch Marki Ashvilli, the organization had immense power in Russia and New York City; Ashvilli was the owner of the New York Rangers hockey team, and he controlled a small army of bodyguards that defended the MeTV building. He also possessed political power in America, having a team of corrupt SWAT and FBI personnel defend him as he launched a criminal investigation against Ray Bulgarin in retaliation for Bulgarin's attempts to take his team from him. These corrupt federal agents were killed by Bulgarin, Luis Fernando Lopez, and Timur Ovchinnikov in the 2008 Yorkville parking garage shootout, and Bulgarin sent Lopez to kill Ashvilli at his building when he refused to sell the team; there was a chance that Ashvilli could harm Ovchinnikov's family back in Russia if Ovchinnikov was the gunman. Lopez killed dozens of Ashvilli's bodyguards after parachuting into the building, and he killed Ashvilli in his office. The gang was wiped out after Ashvilli's death.